Update News
American Truck Simulator Kenworth W900 free DLC
February 15, in the year of our Lord 2016 --
SCS Software is happy to announce that the legendary Kenworth
W900 truck is now a part of American Truck Simulator. The truck
is a free DLC - the game will be updated automatically through
Steam.
There are also several notable changes coming with this game
update, let us preview them for you:
Since ATS release, we have heard plenty of complaints regarding
relative large fines in the game. Perhaps our tester group is so
much more experienced already; playing our games for years, that
they did not bring it to our attention that this would be a
problem especially for new players. We erred here on the side of
trying to make this element of the game too close to reality,
catering to the veteran fans who want it tough.
On second thought, it's not really a good idea to intimidate
people coming fresh to the game with crippling fines. Fines are
now considerably lower in the early stages of the game, they
grow larger only as the player's skill/level grows.
We have also made the detection code for speeding more
forgiving, giving the player more time to adjust to a new speed
limit. We definitely do not want to make players feel like the
game is unfair!
More changes in this area are in the pipeline, our map team is
hard at work adding more speed limit signs to proper places to
explicitly zone the limits. There are also changes to the AI
code that are tied to yet more map tweaks, which should further
limit the problems with being rammed by overly stupid AI cars
and on top of it getting penalized for it. But we will only be
able to push out the changes in the map alongside the next major
game update, so please have patience with us.
Finally, we have also improved the detection of 'turn on red'
feature in the game. For drivers in Europe, it may be a surprise
that in the US it's legally allowed to turn right at red traffic
light, unless explicitly prohibited. So in the game, if you
properly use your indicator to signal that you are turning
right, no red light penalty is applied just as expected.